TUB'BER, noun In Cornwall, a mining instrument, called in other places a beele. The man who uses this tool is called tubber-man or beel-man.

TUB'BING, participle present tense Setting in a tub.

TUBE, noun [Latin tubus.] A pipe; a siphon; a canal or conduit; a hollow cylinder, either of wood, metal or glass, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes.

1. A vessel of animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.

2. In botany, the narrow hollow part of a monopetalous corol, by which it is fixed to the receptacle.

3. In artillery, an instrument of tin, used in quick firing.

TUBE, verb transitive To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.

TU'BER, noun In botany, a knob in roots, solid, with the component particles all similar.

TU'BERCLE, noun [Latin tuberculum, from tuber, a bunch.]

1. A pimple; a small push, swelling or tumor on animal bodies.

2. A little knob, like a pimple, on plants; a little knob or rough point on the leaves of some lichens, supposed to be the fructification.

TUBER'CULAR

TUBER'CULATE, adjective Having small knobs or pimples, as a plant.

TUBER'CULATE, a. Having small knobs or pimples, as a plant.

TUBER'CULOUS, adjective Full of knobs or pimples.

1. Affected with tubercles.

TU'BEROSE, noun [Latin tuberosa.] A plant with a tuberous root and a liliaceous flower, the Polianthus tuberosa; formerly called the tuberous hyacinth.

TU'BEROUS, adjective [from Latin tuber, a bunch.] Knobbed. In botany, consisting of roundish fleshy bodies, or tubers, connected into a bunch by intervening threads; as the roots of artichokes and potatoes.

TU'BIPORE, noun [tube and pore.] A genus of zoophytes or corals.

TU'BIPORITE, noun Fossil tubipores.

TUB'-MAN, noun In the exchequer, a barrister so called.

TU'BULAR, adjective [from Latin tubus.] Having the form of a tube or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as a tubular snout; a tubular calyx.

TU'BULE, noun [Latin tubulus.] A small pipe or fistular body.

TU'BULIFORM, adjective Having the form of a tube.

TU'BULOUS, adjective Longitudinally hollow.

1. Containing tubes; composed wholly of tubulous florets; as a tubulous compound flower.

2. In botany, having a bell-shaped border, with five reflex segments, rising from a tube; as a tubulous floret.

TUCH, noun A kind of marble.

TUCK, noun

1. A long narrow sword.

2. A kind of net.

3. [from the verb following.] In a ship, the part where the ends of the bottom planks are collected under the stern.

4. A fold; a pull; a lugging. [See Tug.]

TUCK, verb transitive [In some parts of England, this verb signifies to full, as cloth.]

1. To thrust or press in or together; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck up a bed; to tuck up a garment; to tuck in the skirt of anything.

2. To inclose by tucking close around; as, to tuck a child into a bed.

3. To full, as cloth. [Local.]

TUCK, verb intransitive To contract; to draw together. [Not in use.]

TUCK'ER, noun A small piece of linen for shading the breast of women.

1. A fuller, whence the name. [Local.]

TUCK'ET, noun A flourish in music; a voluntary; a prelude.

1. A steak; a collop.

TUCK'ETSONANCE, noun The sound of the tucket, an ancient instrument of music.

TUCK'ING, participle present tense Pressing under or together; folding.

TUESDAY, noun s as z. The third day of the week.

TUF, noun A stone or porous substance formed by depositions from springs or rivulets, containing much earthy matter in solution. Tufa is also formed by the concretion of loose volcanic dust or cinders, cemented by water, or by the consolidation of mud thrown out of volcanoes. The disintegration and subsequent consolidation of basaltic rocks, forms a kind of tufa, called by the German geologists, trap-tuff.

TU'FA

TUFA'CEOUS, adjective Pertaining to tufa; consisting of tufa or resembling it.

TUFFOON', noun [a corruption of typhon.] A violent tempest or tornado with thunder and lightning, frequent in the Chinese sea and the gulf of Tonquin.

TUFT, noun

1. A collection of small things in a knot or bunch; as a tuft of flowers; a tuft of feathers; a tuft of grass or hair. A tuft of feathers forms the crest of a bird..

2. A cluster, a clump; as a tuft of trees; a tuft of olives.

3. In botany, a head of flowers, each elevated on a partial stalk, and all forming together a dense roundish mass. The word is sometimes applied to other collections, as little bundles of leaves, hairs and the like.

TUFT, verb transitive To separate into tufts.

1. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft

TUFT'ED, participle passive or adjective Adorned with a tuft, as the tufted duck; growing in a tuft or clusters, as a tufted grove.

TUFT'Y, adjective Abounding with tufts; growing in clusters; bushy.

TUG, verb transitive [Latin duco. See Tow, to draw.]

1. To pull or draw with great effort; to drag along with continued exertion; to haul along.

There sweat, there strain, tug the laborious oar.

2. To pull; to pluck.

--To ease the pain

His tugg'd ears suffer'd with a strain.

TUG, verb intransitive To pull with great effort; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream.

1. To labor; to strive; to struggle.

They long wrestled and strenuously tugged for their liberty. [This is not elegant.]

TUG, noun A pull with the utmost effort.

At the tug he falls--

Vast ruins come along--

1. A sort of carriage, used in some parts of England for conveying bavins or faggots and other things.

2. In some parts of New England, the traces of a harness are called tugs.

TUG'GER, noun One who tugs, or pulls with great effort.

TUG'GING, participle present tense Pulling or dragging with great exertion; hauling.

TUG'GINGLY, adverb With laborious pulling.

TUI'TION, noun [Latin tuitio, from tueor, to see, behold, protect, etc.; Latin duco, to lead.]

1. Guardianship; superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward.

2. More especially, instruction; the act or business of teaching the various branches of learning. We place our children under the preceptors of academies for tuition [This is now the common acceptation of the word.]

3. The money paid for instruction. In our colleges, the tuition is from thirty to forty dollars a year.

TULIP, noun [Latin tulipa.] A plant and a flower of the genus Tulipa, of a great variety of colors, and much cultivated for its beauty.

TUM'BLE, verb intransitive [Latin tumulus, tumultus, tumeo.]

1. To roll; to roll about by turning one way and the other; as, a person in pain tumbles and tosses.

2. To fall; to come down suddenly and violently; as, to tumble from a scaffold.

3. To roll down. The stone of Sisyphus is said to have tumbled to the bottom, as soon as it was carried up the hill.

4. To play mountebank tricks.

TUM'BLE, verb transitive To turn over; to turn or throw about for examination or searching; sometimes with over; as, to tumble over books or papers; to tumble over clothes. [To tumble over in thought, is not elegant.]

1. To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.

To tumble out, to throw or roll out; as, to tumble out casks from a store.

To tumble down, to throw down carelessly.

TUM'BLE, noun A fall.

TUM'BLED, participle passive Rolled; disturbed; rumpled; thrown down.

TUM'BLER, noun One who tumbles; one who plays the tricks of a mountebank.

1. A large drinking glass.

2. A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from his practice of tumbling or turning over in flight. It is a short-bodied pigeon, of a plain color, black, blue or white.

3. A sort of dog, so called form his practice of tumbling before he attacks his prey.

TUM'BLING, participle present tense Rolling about; falling; disturbing; rumpling.

Tumbling-home, in a ship, is the inclination of the top-sides from a perpendicular, towards the center of the ship; or the part of a ship which falls inward above the extreme breadth.

TUM'BREL, noun

1. A ducking stool for the punishment of scolds.

2. A dung-cart.

3. A cart or carriage with two wheels, which accompanies troops or artillery, for conveying the tools of pioneers, cartridges and the like.

TUM'BRIL, noun A contrivance of the basket kind, or a kind of cage of osiers, willows, etc. for keeping hay and other food for sheep.

TUMEFAC'TION, noun [Latin tumefacio, to make tumid. See Tumid.] The act or process of swelling or rising into a tumor; a tumor; a swelling.

TU'MEFIED, participle passive [from tumefy.] Swelled; enlarged; as a tumefied joint.

TU'MEFY, verb transitive [Latin tumefacio; tumidus, tumeo, and facio.]

To swell, or cause to swell.

TU'MEFY, verb intransitive To swell; to rise in a tumor.

TU'MEFYING, participle present tense Swelling; rising in a tumor.

TU'MID, adjective [Latin tumidus, from tumeo, to swell.]

1. Being swelled, enlarged or distended; as a tumid leg; tumid flesh.

2. Protuberant; rising above the level.

So high as heav'd the tumid hills.

3. Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; bombastic; falsely sublime; as a tumid expression; a tumid style.

TU'MIDLY, adverb In a swelling form.

TU'MIDNESS, noun A swelling or swelled state.

TU'MITE, noun A mineral. [See Thummerstone.]

TU'MOR, noun [Latin from tumeo, to swell.] In surgery, a swelling; a morbid enlargement of any part of the body; a word of very comprehensive signification.

The morbid enlargement of a particular part, without being caused by inflammation.

Any swelling which arises from the growth of distinct superfluous parts or substances, which did not make any part of the original structure of the body, or from a morbid increase in the bulk of other parts, which naturally and always existed in the human frame.

The term tumor is limited by Abernathy to such swellings as arise from new productions, and includes only the sarcomatous and encysted tumors.

An encysted tumor is one which is formed in a membrane called a cyst, connected with the surrounding parts by the neighboring cellular substance. There are also fatty tumors, called lipomatous or adipose, (adipose sarcoma, ) formed by an accumulation of fat in a limited extent of the cellular substance.

1. Affected pomp; bombast in language; swelling word or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity. [Little used.]

TU'MORED, noun Distended; swelled.

TU'MOROUS, adjective Swelling; protuberant.

1. Vainly pompous; bombastic; as language or style. [Little used.]

TUMP, noun [infra.] A little hillock.

TUMP, verb transitive [Latin tumulus. See Tomb.] In gardening, to form a mass of earth or a hillock round a plant; as, to tump teasel. [This English phrase is not used in America, but it answers nearly to our hilling. See Hill.]

TUMP'ED, participle passive Surrounded with a hillock of earth.

TUMP'ING, participle present tense Raising a mass of earth round a plant.

TU'MULAR, adjective [Latin tumulus, a heap.] Consisting in a heap; formed or being in a heap or hillock.

TU'MULATE, verb intransitive To swell. [Not in use.]

TUMULOS'ITY, noun [infra.] Hilliness.

TU'MULOUS, adjective [Latin tumulosus.] Full of hills.

TU'MULT, noun [Latin tumultus, a derivative from tumeo, to swell.]

1. The commotion, disturbance or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar and confusion of voices.

What meaneth the noise of this tumult? 1 Samuel 4:14.

Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose.

2. Violent commotion or agitation with confusion of sounds; as the tumult of the elements.

3. Agitation; high excitement; irregular or confused motion; as the tumult of the spirits or passions.

4. Bustle; stir.

TU'MULT, verb intransitive To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.

TUMULT'UARILY, adverb [from tumultuary.] In a tumultuary or disorderly manner.

TUMULT'UARINESS, noun Disorderly or tumultuous conduct; turbulence; disposition to tumult.

TUMULT'UARY, adjective [Latin tumultus.]

1. Disorderly; promiscuous; confused; as a tumultuary conflict.

2. Restless; agitated; unquiet.

Men who live without religion, live always in a tumultuary and restless state.

TUMULT'UATE, verb intransitive [Latin tumultuo.] To make a tumult. [Not used.]

TUMULTUA'TION, noun Commotion; irregular or disorderly movement; as the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid.

TUMULT'UOUS, adjective Conducted with tumult; disorderly; as a tumultuous conflict; a tumultuous retreat.

1. Greatly agitated; irregular; noisy; confused; as a tumultuous assembly or meeting.

2. Agitated; disturbed; as a tumultuous breast.

3. Turbulent; violent; as a tumultuous speech.

4. Full of tumult and disorder; as a tumultuous state or city.

TUMULT'UOUSLY, adverb In a disorderly manner; by a disorderly multitude.

TUMULT'UOUSNESS, noun The state of being tumultuous; disorder; commotion.

TUN, noun [Latin teneo, to hold; Gr. to stretch.]

1. In a general sense, a large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops.

2. A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, oil, etc.

3. A quantity of wine, consisting of two pipes or four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.

4. In commerce, the weight of twenty hundreds gross, each hundred consisting of 112 lb = 2240 lb. But by a law of Connecticut, passed June 1827, gross weight is abolished, and a tun is the weight of 2000 lb. It is also a practice in noun York to sell by 2000 lb. to the tun

5. A certain weight by which the burden of a ship is estimated; as a ship of three hundred tuns, that is, a ship that will carry three hundred times two thousand weight. Forty two cubic feet are allowed to a tun

6. A certain quantity of timber, consisting of forty solid feet if round, or fifty four feet if square.

7. Proverbially, a large quantity.

8. In burlesque, a drunkard.

9. At the end of names, tun ton, or don, signifies town, village, or hill.

TUN, verb transitive To put into casks.

TU'NABLE, adjective [from tune.] Harmonious; musical.

And tunable as sylvan pipe or song.

1. That may be put in tune.

TU'NABLENESS, noun Harmony; melodiousness.

TU'NABLY, adverb Harmoniously; musically.

TUNE, noun [Latin tonus.]

1. A series of musical notes in some particular measure, and consisting of a single series, for one voice or instrument, the effect of which is melody; or a union of two or more series or parts to be sung or played in concert, the effect of which is harmony. Thus we say, a merry tune a lively tune a grave tune a psalm tune a martial tune

2. Sound; note.

3. Harmony; order; concert of parts.

A continual parliament I thought would but keep the commonweal in tune

4. The state of giving the proper sounds; as when we say, a harpsichord is in tune; that is, when the several chords are of that tension, that each gives its proper sound, and the sounds of all are at due intervals, both of tones and semitones.

5. Proper state for use or application; right disposition; fit temper or humor. The mind is not in tune for mirth.

A child will learn three times as fast when he is in tune as he will when he is dragged to this task.

TUNE, verb transitive To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; as, to tune a forte-piano; to tune a violin.

TUNE your harps.

1. To sing with melody or harmony.

Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow

Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.

So we say of birds, they tune their notes or lays.

2. To put into a state proper for any purpose, or adapted to produce a particular effect. [Little used.]

TUNE, verb intransitive To form one sound to another.

While tuning to the waters'fall

The small birds sang to her.

1. To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice.

TU'NED, participle passive Uttered melodiously or harmoniously; put in order to produce the proper sounds.

TU'NEFUL, adjective Harmonious; melodious; musical; as tuneful notes; tuneful birds.

TU'NELESS, adjective Unmusical; unharmonious.

1. Not employed in making music; as a tuneless harp.

TU'NER, noun One who tunes.

1. One whose occupation is to tune musical instruments.

TUNG, noun A name given by the Indians to a small insect, called by the Spaniards pique, which inserts its eggs within the human skin; an insect very troublesome in the East and West Indies.

TUNG, noun In man, the instrument of taste, and the chief instrument of speech. [See Tongue.]

TUNG, noun [Ant. Latin tingua; digitus and dug. Our common orthography is incorrect; the true spelling is tung ]

1. In man, the instrument of taste, and the chief instrument of speech; and in other animals, the instrument of taste. It is also an instrument of deglutition. In some animals, the tongue is used for drawing the food into the mouth, as in animals of the bovine genus, etc. Other animals lap their drink, as dogs.

The tongue is covered with membranes, and the outer one is full of papillae of a pyramidical figure, under which lies a thin, soft, reticular coat perforated with innumerable holes, and always lined with a thick and white or yellowish mucus.

2. Speech; discourse; sometimes, fluency of speech.

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

3. The power of articulate utterance; speech.

Parrots imitating human tongue.

4. Speech, as well or ill used; mode of speaking.

Keep a good tongue in thy head.

The tongue of the wise is health. Proverbs 12:1.

5. A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation. The English tongue, within two hundred years, will probably be spoken by two or three hundred millions of people in North America.

6. Speech; words or declarations only; opposed to thoughts or actions.

Let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3:1.

7. A nation, as distinguished by their language.

I will gather all nations and tongues. Isaiah 66:1.

8. A point; a projection; as the tongue of a buckle or of a balance.

9. A point or long narrow strip of land, projecting from the main into a sea or a lake.

10. The taper part of any thing; in the rigging of a ship, a short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc. to the size of the mast-head.

To hold the tongue, to be silent.

TONGUE

TUNG, verb transitive To chide; to scold.

How might she tongue me.

TONGUE

TUNG, verb intransitive To talk; to prate.

TUNG'ED, adjective Having a tongue.

Tongued like the night-crow.

TUNG'LESS, adjective Having no tongue.

1. Speechless; as a tongueless block.

2. Unnamed; not spoken of.

One good deed dying tongueless. [Not used.]

TUNG'STATE, noun A salt formed of tungstenic acid and a base.

TUNG'STEN, noun In mineralogy, a mineral of a yellowish or grayish white color, of a lamellar structure, and infusible by the blowpipe. It occurs massive or crystallized, usually in octahedral crystals. This is an ore. The same name is given to the metal obtained from this ore. This metal is procured in small panes as fine as sand, of a strong metallic luster, an iron gray color, and slightly agglutinated. It is one of the hardest of the metals, and very brittle.

TUNGSTEN'IC, adjective Pertaining to or procured from tungsten.

TU'NIC, noun [Latin tunica. See Town and Tun.]

1. A kind of waistcoat or under garment worn by men in ancient Rome and the east. In the later ages of the republic, the tunic was a long garment with sleeves.

2. Among the religious, a woolen shirt or under garment.

3. In anatomy, a membrane that covers or composes some part or organ; as the tunics or coats of the eye; the tunics of the stomach, or the membranous and muscular layers which compose it.

4. A natural covering; an integument; as the tunic of a seed.

The tunic of the seed, is the arillus, a covering attached to the base only of the seed, near the hilum or scar, and enveloping the rest of the seed more or less completely and closely.

TU'NICATED, adjective In botany, covered with a tunic or membranes; coated; as a stem.

A tunicated bulb, is one composed of numerous concentric coats, as an onion.

TU'NICLE, noun [from tunic.] A natural covering; an integument.

TU'NING, participle present tense Uttering harmoniously or melodiously; putting in due order for making the proper sounds.

TUNK'ER, noun The tunkers are a religious sect in Pennsylvania, of German origin, resembling English baptists.

TUN'NAGE, adjective [from tun.] The amount of tuns that a ship will carry; the content or burthen of a ship. A ship pays duty according to her tunnage

1. The duty charged on ships according to their burthen, or the number of tuns at which they are rated.

2. A duty laid on liquors according to their measure.

3. A duty paid to mariners by merchants for unloading their ships, after a rate by the tun.

4. The whole amount of shipping, estimated by the tuns.

TUN'NEL, noun A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, and a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor into casks.

1. The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; called generally a funnel.

2. A large subterraneous arch through a hill for a canal and the passage of boats. Smaller drains or culverts are also called tunnels.

TUN'NEL, verb transitive To form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.

1. To catch in a net called a tunnel-net.

2. To form with net-work.

TUN'NING, participle present tense Putting into casks.

TUN'NY, noun [Latin thynnus.] A fish of the genus Scomber, the Spanish mackerel. The largest weigh upwards of four hundred pounds.

TUP, noun A ram. [Local.]

TUP, verb transitive To butt, as a ram. [Local.]

1. To cover, as a ram. [Local.]

TU'PELO, noun A tree of the genus Nyssa.

TUP'-MAN, noun A man who deals in tups. [Local.]

TUR'BAN, noun A head dress worn by the orientals, consisting of a cap, and a sash of fine linen or taffeta artfully wound round it in plaits. The cap is red or green, roundish on the top, and quilted with cotton. The sash of the Turks is white linen; that of the Persians is red woolen.

1. In conchology, the whole set of whirls of a shell.

TUR'BANED, adjective Wearing a turban; as a turbaned Turk.

TUR'BARY, noun [from turf; Latinized, turbaria.]

1. In law, a right of digging turf on another man's land. Common of turbary is the liberty which a tenant enjoys of digging turf on the lord's waste.

2. The place where turf is dug.

TUR'BID, adjective [Latin turbidus, from turbo, to disturb, that is, to stir, to turn.] Properly, having the lees disturbed; but in a more general sense, muddy; foul with extraneous matter; thick; not clear; used of liquids of any kind; as turbid water; turbid wine. Streams running on clay generally appear to be turbid This is often the case with the river Seine.

TUR'BIDLY, adverb Proudly; haughtily; a Latinism. [Not in use.]

TUR'BIDNESS, noun Muddiness; foulness.

TURBIL'LION, noun A whirl; a vortex.

TUR'BINATE

TUR'BINATED, adjective [Latin turbinatus, formed like atop, form turbo, turben, atop.]

1. In conchology, spiral, or wreathed conically from a larger base to a kind of apex; as turbinated shells.

2. In botany, shaped like a top or cone inverted; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as a turbinated germ, nectary or pericarp.

3. Whirling. [Little used.]

TUR'BINATED, a. [L. turbinatus, formed like atop, form turbo, turben, atop.]

TURBINA'TION, noun The act of spinning or whirling, as a top.

TUR'BINITE

TUR'BIT, noun A variety of the domestic pigeon, remarkable for its short beak; called by the Dutch kort-bek, short beak.

1. The turbot.

TUR'BIT, n. A variety of the domestic pigeon, remarkable for its short beak; called by the Dutch kort-bek, short beak.

TUR'BITE, noun A petrified shell of the turbo kind.

TUR'BITH

TUR'BOT, noun A fish of the genus Pleuronectes, [fishes which swim on the side.] It grows to the weight of twenty or thirty pounds, and is much esteemed by epicures.

TUR'BOT, n. A fish of the genus Pleuronectes, [fishes which swim on the side.] It grows to the weight of twenty or thirty pounds, and is much esteemed by epicures.

TUR'BULENCE

TUR'BULENCY, noun [See Turbulent.] A disturbed state; tumult; confusion; as the turbulence of the times; turbulence in political affairs.

1. Disorder or tumult of the passions; as turbulence of mind.

2. Agitation; tumultuousness; as turbulence of blood.

3. Disposition to resist authority; insubordination; as the turbulence of subjects.

TUR'BULENCY, n. [See Turbulent.] A disturbed state; tumult; confusion; as the turbulence of the times; turbulence in political affairs.

TUR'BULENT, adjective [Latin turbulentus, from turbo, to disturb.]

1. Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; being in violent commotion; as the turbulent ocean.

Calm region once,

And full of peace, now tost and turbulent

The turbulent mirth of wine.

2. Restless; unquiet; refractory; disposed to insubordination and disorder; as turbulent spirits.

3. Producing commotion.

Whose heads that turbulent liquor fills with fumes.

TUR'BULENTLY, adverb Tumultuously; with violent agitation; with refractoriness.

TUR'CISM, noun The religion of the Turks.

TURF, noun

1. That upper stratum of earth and vegetable mold, which is filled with the roots of grass and other small plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat. This is otherwise called sward and sod.

2. Peat; a peculiar kind of blackish, fibrous, vegetable, earthy substance, used as fuel. [Dryden and Addison wrote turfs, in the plural. But when turf or peat is cut into small pieces, the practice now is to call them turves.]

3. Race-ground; or horse-racing.

The honors of the turf are all our own.

TURF, verb transitive To cover with turf or sod; as, to turf a bank or the border of a terrace.

TURF'-COVERED, adjective Covered with turf

TURF'-DRAIN, noun A drain filled with turf or peat.

TURF'ED, participle passive Covered with turf or green sod.

TURF'-HEDGE, noun A hedge or fence formed with turf and plants of different kinds.

TURF'-HOUSE, noun A house or shed formed of turf, common in the northern parts of Europe.

TURF'INESS, noun [from turfy.] The state of abounding with turf, or of having the consistence or qualities of turf.

TURF'ING, participle present tense Covering with turf.

TURF'ING, noun The operation of laying down turf, or covering with turf.

TURF'Y, adjective Abounding with turf.

1. Having the qualities of turf.

TUR'GENT, adjective [Latin turgens, form turgeo, to swell.] Swelling; tumid; rising into a tumor or puffy state; as when the humors are turgent

TURGES'CENCE

TURGES'CENCY, noun [Latin turgescens.] The act of swelling.

1. The state of being swelled.

2. Empty pompousness; inflation; bombast.

TURGES'CENCY, n. [L. turgescens.] The act of swelling.

TUR'GID, adjective [Latin turgidus, from turgeo, to swell.]

1. Swelled; bloated; distended beyond its natural state by some internal agent or expansive force.

A bladder held by the fire grew turgid

More generally, the word is applied to an enlarged part of the body; as a turgid limb.

2. Tumid; pompous; inflated; bombastic; as a turgid style; a turgid manner of talking.

TURGID'ITY, noun State of being swelled; tumidness.

TUR'GIDLY, adverb With swelling or empty pomp.

TUR'GIDNESS, noun A swelling or swelled state of a thing; distention beyond its natural state by some internal force or agent, as in a limb.

1. Pompousness; inflated manner of writing or speaking; bombast; as the turgidness of language or style.

TURIONIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin turio, a shoot, and fero, to bear.]

Producing shoots.

TUR'KEY

TUR'KEY-STONE, noun Another name of the oil-stone, from turkey

TURK'OIS, noun A mineral, called also calaite, brought from the east; of a beautiful light green color, occurring in thin layers, or in rounded masses, or in reniform masses, with a botryoidal surface. It is susceptible of a high polish, and is used in jewelry. It is usually written in the French manner.

TUR'KY, noun [As this fowl was not brought from Turkey, it would be more correct to write the name turky ] A large fowl, the Meleagris gallopavo, a distinct genus. It is a native of America, and its flesh furnishes most delicious food. Wild turkies abound in the forests of America, and domestic turkies are bred in other countries, as well as in America.

TURM, noun [Latin turma.] A troop. [Not English.]

TUR'MALIN, noun An electric stone. [See Tourmalin.]

TUR'MALIN, noun [probably a corruption of tournamal, a name given to this stone in Ceylon.] In mineralogy, a silicious stone, sometimes used as a gem by jewelers, remarkable for exhibiting electricity by heat or friction. It occurs in long prisms deeply striated. Its fracture is conchoidal, and its internal luster vitreous.

Turmalin is considered as a variety of shorl.

TUR'MERIC, noun Indian saffron; a medicinal root brought from the East Indies, the root of the Curcuma longa. It is externally grayish, but internally of a deep lively yellow or saffron color. It has a slight aromatic smell, and a bitterish, slightly acrid taste. It is used for dyeing, and in some cases, as a medicine. This name is sometimes given to the blood-root of America.

TURMOIL', noun [I know not the origin of this word; but it is probably from the root of the Latin turba, turbo, turma, or of turn.]

Disturbance, tumult; harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult.

There I'll rest, as after much turmoil

A blessed soul doth in Elysium.

TURMOIL', verb transitive To harass with commotion.

It is her fatal misfortune--to be miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction.

1. To disquiet; to weary.

TURMOIL', verb intransitive To be disquieted; to be in commotion.

TURN, verb transitive [Latin turnus; torniare, to turn; tornare, to return; torneare, tornire, to turn to fence round, to tilt; torniamento, tournament.]

1. To cause to move in a circular course; as, to turn a wheel; to turn a spindle; to turn the body.

2. To change or shift sides; to put the upper side downwards, or one side in the place of the other. It is said a hen turns her eggs often when sitting.

3. To alter, as a position.

Expert

When to advance, or stand, or turn the sway of battle.

4. To cause to preponderate; to change the state of a balance; as, to turn the scale.

5. To bring the inside out; as, to turn a coat.

6. To alter, as the posture of the body, or direction of the look.

The monarch turns him to his royal guest.

7. To form on a lathe; to make round.

8. To form; to shape; used in the participle; as a body finely turned.

Him limbs how turn'd.

9. To change; to transform; as, to turn evil to good; to turn goods into money.

Impatience turns an ague into a fever.

I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness. 2 Samuel 15:31.

10. To metamorphose; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect.

11. To alter or change, as color; as, to turn green to blue.

12. To change or alter in any manner; to vary.

13. To translate; as, to turn Greek into English.

--Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown.

14. To change, as the manner of writing; as, to turn prose into verse.

15. To change, as from one opinion or party to another; as, to turn one from a tory to whig; to turn Mohammedan or a pagan to a Christian.

16. To change in regard to inclination or temper.

TURN thee to me, and have mercy upon me. Psalms 25:16.

17. To change or alter from one purpose or effect to another.

God will make these evils the occasion of greater good, by turning them to our advantage.

18. To transfer.

Therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom to David. 1 Chronicles 10:14.

19. To cause to nauseate or lothe; as, to turn the stomach.

20. To make giddy.

Eastern priests in giddy circles run,

And turn their heads to imitate the sun.

21. To infatuate; to make mad, wild or enthusiastic; as, to turn the brain.

22. To change direction to or from any point; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn the eyes from a disgusting spectacle.

23. To direct by a change to a certain purpose or object; to direct, as the inclination, thoughts or mind. I have turned my mind to the subject.

My thoughts are turn'd on peace.

24. To revolve; to agitate in the mind.

TURN those ideas about in your mind.

25. To bend from a perpendicular direction; as, to turn the edge of an instrument.

26. To move from a direct course or strait line; to cause to deviate; as, to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course.

27. To apply by a change of use.

When the passage is open, land will be turned most to cattle.

28. To reverse.

The Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee. Deuteronomy 30:3.

29. To keep passing and changing in the course of trade; as, to turn money or stock two or three times in the year.

30. To adapt the mind; chiefly in the participle.

He was perfectly well turned for trade.

31. To make acid; to sour; as, to turn cider or wine; to turn milk.

32. To persuade to renounce an opinion; to dissuade from a purpose, or cause to change sides. You cannot turn a firm man.

To turn aside, to avert.

To turn away, to dismiss from service; to discard; as, to turn away a servant.

1. To avert; as, to turn away wrath or evil.

To turn back, to return; as, to turn back goods to the seller. [Little used.]

To turn down, to fold or double down.

To turn in, to fold or double; as, to turn in the edge of cloth.

To turn off, to dismiss contemptuously; as, to turn off a sycophant or parasite.

1. To give over; to resign. We are not so wholly turned off from that reversion.

2. To divert; to deflect; as, to turn off the thoughts from serious subjects.

To be turned of, to be advanced beyond; as, to be turned of sixty six.

To turn out, to drive out; to expel; as, to turn a family out of doors, or out of the house.

1. To put to pasture; as cattle or horses.

To turn over, to change sides; to roll over.

1. To transfer; as, to turn over a business to another hand.

2. To open and examine one leaf after another; as, to turn over a concordance.

3. To overset.

TURN to, to have recourse to.

Helvetius' tables may be turned to on all occasions.

To turn upon, to retort; to throw back; as, to turn the arguments of an opponent upon himself.

To turn the back, to flee; to retreat. Exodus 23:27.

To turn the back upon, to quit with contempt; to forsake.

To turn the die or dice, to change fortune.

TURN, verb intransitive To move round; to have a circular motion; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel.

1. To be directed.

The understanding turns inwards on itself, and reflects on its own operations.

2. To show regard by directing the look towards any thing.

TURN mighty monarch, turn this way;

Do not refuse to hear.

3. To move the body round. He turned to me with a smile.

4. To move; to change posture. Let your body be at rest; do not turn in the least.

5. To deviate; as, to turn from the road or course.

6. To alter; to be changed or transformed; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another.

7. To become by change; as, the fur of certain animals turns in winter.

Cygnets from gray turn white.

8. To change sides. A man in a fever turns often.

9. To change opinions or parties; as, to turn Christian or Mohammedan.

10. To change the mind or conduct.

TURN from thy fierce wrath. Exodus 32:12.

11. To change to acid; as, mild turns suddenly during a thunder storm.

12. To be brought eventually; to result or terminate in. This trade has not turned to much account or advantage. The application of steam turns to good account, both on land and water.

13. To depend on for decision. The question turns on a single fact or point.

14. To become giddy.

I'll look no more,

Lest my brain turn

15. To change a course of life; to repent.

TURN ye, turn ye from your evil ways, for why will ye die? Ezekiel 33:9.

16. To change the course or direction; as, the tide turns.

To turn about, to move the face to another quarter.

To turn away, to deviate.

1. To depart from; to forsake.turn in, to bend inwards.

1. To enter for lodgings or entertainment. Genesis 19:2.

2. To go to bed.

To turn off, to be diverted; to deviate from a course. The road turns off to the left.

To turn on or upon, to reply or retort.

1. To depend on.

To turn out, to move from its place, as a bone.

1. To bend outwards; to project.

2. To rise from bed; also, to come abroad.

To turn over, to turn from side to side; to roll; to tumble.

1. To change sides or parties.

To turn to, to be directed; as, the needle turns to the magnetic pole.

To turn under, to bend or be folded downwards.

To turn up, to bend or be doubled upwards.

TURN, noun The act of turning; movement or motion in a circular direction, whether horizontally, vertically or otherwise; a revolution; as the turn of a wheel.

1. A winding; a meandering course; a bend or bending; as the turn of river.

2. A walk to and from.

I will take a turn in your garden.

3. Change; alteration; vicissitude; as the turns and varieties of passions.

Too well the turns of mortal chance I know.

4. Successive course.

Nobleness and bounty--which virtues had their turns in the king's nature.

5. Manner of proceeding; change of direction. This affair may take a different turn from that which we expect.

6. Chance; hap; opportunity.

Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

7. Occasion; incidental opportunity.

An old dog falling from his speed, was loaded at every turn with blows and reproaches.

8. Time at which, by successive vicissitudes, any thing is to be had or done. They take each other's turn

His turn will come to laugh at you again.

9. Action of kindness or malice.

Thanks are half lost when good turns are delay'd.

Some malicious natures place their delight in doing ill turns.

10. Reigning inclination or course. Religion is not to be adapted to the turn and fashion of the age.

11. A step off the ladder at the gallows.

12. Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn

13. Form; cast; shape; manner; in a literal or figurative sense; as the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation.

The turn of his thoughts and expression is unharmonious.

Female virtues are of a domestic turn

The Roman poets, in their description of a beautiful man, often mention the turn of his neck and arms.

14. Manner of arranging words in a sentence.

15. Change; new position of things. Some evil happens at every turn of affairs.

16. Change of direction; as the turn of the tide from flood to ebb.

17. One round of a rope or cord.

18. In mining, a pit sunk in some part of a drift.

19. turn or tourn, in law. The sheriff's turn is a court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county. [England.]

By turns, one after another; alternately.

They assist each other by turns.

1. At intervals.

They feel by turns the bitter change.

To take turns, to take each other's places alternately.

TURN'-BENCH, noun [turn and bench.] A kind of iron lathe.

TURN'COAT, noun [turn and coat.] One who forsakes his party or principles.

TURN'ED, participle passive Moved in a circle; changed.

TUR'NEP, noun [Latin napus, a turnep ] A bulbous root or plant of the genus Brassica, of great value for food; an esculent root of several varieties.

TURN'ER, noun One whose occupation is to form things with a lathe; one who turns.

TURN'ERITE, noun A rare mineral occurring in small crystals of a yellowish brown color, externally brilliant and translucent.

TURN'ERY, noun The art of forming into a cylindrical shape by the lathe.

1. Things made by a turner or in the lathe.

TURN'ING, participle present tense Moving in a circle; changing; winding.

TURN'ING, noun A winding; a bending course; flexure; meander.

1. Deviation from the way or proper course.

TURN'INGNESS, noun Quality of turning; tergivesation. [Not in use.]

TURN'PIKE, noun [turn and pike.] Strictly, a frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles, and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of breasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms.

1. A gate set across a road to stop travelers and carriages till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair.

2. A turnpike road.

3. In military affairs, a beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage.

TURN'PIKE, verb transitive To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; to throw the path of a road into a rounded form.

TURN'SERVING, noun [turn and serve.] The act or practice of serving one's turn or promoting private interest.

TURN'-SICK, adjective [turn and sick.] Giddy.

TURN'SOLE, noun [turn and Latin sol, the sun.] A plant of the genus Heliotropium, so named because its flower is supposed to turn towards the sun.

TURN'SPIT, noun [turn and spit.] A person who turns a spit.

His lordship is his majesty's turnspit

1. A variety of the dog, so called from turning the spit.

TURN'STILE, noun [turn and stile.] A turnpike in a foot-path.

TURN'STONE, noun [turn and stone.] A bird, called the sea-dotterel, the Tringa morinella, a little larger than an English blackbird. This bird takes its name from its practice of turning up small stones in search of insects.

TUR'PENTINE, adjective [Latin terebinthina.] A transparent resinous substance, flowing naturally or by incision from several species of trees, as from the pine, larch, fir, etc. Common turpentine is of about the consistence of honey; but there are several varieties.

TUR'PETH, noun A root brought from the East Indies, particularly from Cambaya, Surat and Goa, or from Ceylon. It is the cortical part of the root of a species of Convolvulus. That sold in the shops is a longish root, of the thickness of the finger, resinous, heavy, and of a brownish hue without, but whitish within. It is cathartic.

Turbith or turpeth mineral, is the yellow precipitate of mercury, called sometimes yellow subsulphate of mercury, or subdeutosulphate.

TURP'ITUDE, noun [Latin turpitudo, from turpis, foul, base.]

1. Inherent baseness or vileness of principle in the human heart; extreme depravity.

2. Baseness or vileness of words or actions; shameful wickedness.

TUR'REL, noun A tool used by coopers.

TUR'RET, noun [Latin turris.] A little tower; a small eminence or spire attached to a building and rising above it.

And lift her turrets nearer to the sky.

1. In the art of war, movable turrets, used formerly by the Romans, were buildings of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories, and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, moved on wheels. They were employed in approaches to a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting-bridges and other necessaries.

TUR'RETED, adjective Formed like a tower; as a turreted lamp.

1. Furnished with turrets.

TUR'RILITE, noun The fossil remains of a spiral multilocular shell.

TUR'TLE, noun [Latin turtur.]

1. A fowl of the genus Columba; called also the turtle dove, and turtle pigeon. It is a wild species, frequenting the thickest parts of the woods, and its note is plaintive and tender.

2. The name sometimes given to the common tortoise.

3. The name given to the large sea-tortoise.

TUS'CAN, adjective Pertaining to Tuscany in Italy; an epithet given to one of the orders of columns, the most ancient and simple.

TUS'CAN, noun An order of columns.

TUSH, an exclamation, indicating check, rebuke or contempt. tush tush never tell me such a story as that.

TUSH, noun A tooth.

TUSK, noun The long pointed tooth of certain rapacious, carnivorous or fighting animals; as the tusks of the boar.

TUSK, verb intransitive To gnash the teeth, as a boar.

TUSK'ED

TUSK'Y, adjective Furnished with tusks; as the tusky boar.

TUSK'Y, a. Furnished with tusks; as the tusky boar.

TUS'SLE, noun A struggle; a conflict. [Vulgar.] [See Touse.]

TUS'SOC, noun A tuft of grass or twigs.

TUS'SUC

TUT, an exclamation, used for checking or rebuking.

TUT, noun An imperial ensign of a golden globe with a cross on it.

Tut bargain, among miners, a bargain by the lump. [Qu. Latin totus.]

TUT, an exclamation, used for checking or rebuking.

TUT, n. An imperial ensign of a golden globe with a cross on it.

Tut bargain, among miners, a bargain by the lump. [Qu.L. totus.]

TU'TELAGE, noun [from Latin tutela, protection, from tueor, to defend.]

1. Guardianship; protection; applied to the person protecting; as, the king's right of seignory and tutelage

2. State of being under a guardian.

TU'TELAR

TU'TELARY, adjective [Latin tutelaris, supra.] Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as tutelary genii; tutelary goddesses.

TU'TELARY, a. [L. tutelaris, supra.] Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as tutelary genii; tutelary goddesses.

TU'TENAG, noun The Chinese name of zink. Sometimes the word is used to denote a metallic compound brought from China, called Chinese copper or white copper, consisting of copper, zink and iron.

TU'TOR, noun [Latin from tuero, to defend.]

1. In the civil law, a guardian; one who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate.

2. One who has the care of instructing another in various branches or in any branch of human learning. Some gentlemen employ a tutor to teach in their families, others to attend a son in his travels.

3. In universities and colleges, an officer or member of some hall, who has the charge of instructing the students in the sciences and other branches of learning.

In the American colleges, tutors are graduates selected by the governors or trustees, for the instruction of undergraduates of the three first years. They are usually officers of the institution, who have a share, with the president and professors, in the government of the students.

TU'TOR, verb transitive To teach; to instruct.

1. To treat with authority or severity.

2. To correct.

TU'TORAGE, noun In the civil law, guardianship; the charge of a pupil and his estate. In France, tutorage does not expire till the pupil is twenty five years of age.

1. The authority or solemnity of a tutor. [Little used.]

TU'TORED, participle passive Instructed; corrected; disciplined.

TU'TORESS, noun A female tutor; an instructress; a governess.

TU'TORING, participle present tense Teaching; directing; correcting.

TU'TORING, noun The act of instructing; education.

TU'TRIX, noun A female guardian.

TUT'SAN, noun A plant, park-leaves, of the genus Hypericum.

TUT'TI, noun [Latin toti.] In Italian music, a direction for all to play in full concert.

TUT'TY, noun [Low Latin tutia.] An argillaceous ore of zink, found in Persia, formed on cylindric molds into tubular pieces, like the bark of a tree. It is said to be made of a glutinous, argillaceous earth, like clay, which is put into pots, moistened and baked.

TUZ, noun A lock or tuft of hair. [Not in use.]